Clinton on Michigan: "This election is not going to count for anything"

By: Lowell
Published On: 5/31/2008 8:28:38 AM


That was Hillary Clinton on October 11, 2007, before she realized that Michigan might be important to her chances at winning the nomination.  Remember, at the time, Clinton's campaign geniuses firmly believed that they were cruising to the rightful coronation nomination, that they would certainly wrap things up by Super Tuesday, and that Barack Obama was at most a nuisance. Well, the situation changed 180 degrees, as did the Clinton campaign's position on Michigan. Today, Clinton's people will be protesting and arguing at the DNC meeting in Washington, DC that not only should Michigan's election "count for anything," but that it's some sort of great cause. Yes, believe it or not, Clinton has compared Michigan's delegate squabble to the horrible situation in Zimbabwe and to the 1960s civil rights struggle.  Maybe Clinton has forgotten about the blood and pain involved in the civil rights struggle, just as she "forgot" about that whole greeting ceremony in Bosnia where she was wasn't was wasn't shot at?  Maybe she actually believes, in what certainly would be the height of Clintonian narcissism, that her "cause" ranks at the same level as the struggle for African American equality in America? I don't know, and frankly I don't care. All I know is that it's time for the superdelegates - and Democrats more broadly - to tell Hillary Clinton, "thanks for running, it's been great, but enough is enough -- this thing is O-V-E-R. Bye."  


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